Friday, 29 March 2013

Blue Mountain Mystery, the sixth feature-length special is returning to Channel 5 in the United Kingdom this weekend.

Ahead of the Easter festivities, the broadcaster is to repeat the 2012 film on Easter Sunday morning on milkshake!.

milkshake!'s website reads; Its full steam ahead on Easter Sunday with the adventure packed film Thomas and Friends - Blue Mountain Mystery.Thomas, the really useful engine, will be chugging on to your screens to solve the enigma of the runaway engine.

Grady is most recognised as Barry Wilkinson in Last of the Summer Wine, the UK's longest running sitcom. He played the role for a number of years from 1986 until the show's demise in 2010.

Other credits include Skins, As Time Goes By, Coronation Street and on film in The Pirates of Penzance and The Return of the Pink Panther.Grady has also participated in a number of stage shows including Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet and Peter Pan with the Royal Shakespeare Company.King of the Railway: The Movie premieres in Vue cinemas nationwide across the UK in late August with September releases due for the US, Germany and Australia.

Winston Ride as its tentatively titled, will bring the track inspection vehicle to the forefront as a monorail sky-lining the whole park. Theme Park Worldwide are to update its construction process on their YouTube channel.

Manor's latest addition has been promoted in their new brochures and on posters around its park.

Winston Ride will be open to the public at Drayton Manor's Thomas Land this summer.

Hit Entertainment is to release the next volume in the Awesome AdventuresDVD series this summer.

The amalgamation of themed episodes from Thomas & Friends, Fireman Sam and Bob the Builder will focus on Mighty Messes.

The fifth part of the US DVD range sees Thomas make a consecutive return in the form of another two stories from Season Thirteen.

The synopsis reads; There are dirty jobs, but somebody’s got to do them and Thomas & Friends, Fireman Sam and Bob the Builder are ready!Thomas and Rosie enjoy a game of splashing puddles but can Thomas stop playing when it’s time to be a Really Useful Engine?See if Fireman Sam, Penny and Jupiter can get out of a sticky situation when Norman ignores some helpful instructions.

Will Scratch be able to juggle work and play to get the stadium done in time? Join your favorite friends as they get in – and out – of six messy adventures and prove that good friendships are the foundation of success!

Thursday, 14 March 2013

The brand new Seventeenth Series of Thomas & Friends is to mark its debut on an exclusive release.

Forerunning King of the Railway's September premiere, Season Seventeen will be previewed in RailwayMischief, only to be released as a Walmart exclusive.

The DVD is to hold five episodes ahead of a quickie release next month in the US. A commercially available version is expected to follow.

The summary reads; Cinders
and Ashes! There’s trouble on the tracks for Thomas and his
friends. Gordon and Cranky don’t want to listen to really useful
advice from Paxton and Kevin. Scruff, Winston and Stafford lose track
of themselves, causing confusion and
delay!Sometimes engines need a little help from their friends to
chuff and puff full steam ahead!

Episodes include;

Gordon Runs Dry

Kevin’s Cranky Friend

Scruff’s Makeover

Wayward Winston

Steamie Stafford

Extras include;

Sodor Hide & Seek Game

All You Need Are Friends Music Video

Guess Who?: Kevin, Scruff and Gordon

The cover shows a surprised Thomas and Gordon running through muddy tracks. A Take-n-Play poster is included as a bonus.

Railway Mischief from Lionsgate Entertainment hits US DVD shelves on April 9th 2013 only at Walmart.

Friday, 8 March 2013

Another two episodes from the Jack and the Pack spin-off series were planned but never made it to production.

The stories were initially panned out by Thomas Gets it Right writer, Robert Rigby, credited as Robin in the latter's end credits.

Through Rigby's agent Janet Fillingham Associates, Roll Along Thomas can reveal that Safety First and Treasure Hunt were cut from the series.

Robert's episode of Thomas was called Thomas Gets it Right. Our archives reveal that the two episodes he wrote for Jack and the Pack were called Safety First and Treasure Hunt.But I'm afraid neither Robert, nor we can remember whether either was produced. As said, this was a short-lived spinoff.

It is not known what the plots would have involved. Whose the Boss and No Dozer is an Islandalso met the same fate.

Wednesday, 6 March 2013

The second official trailer of King of the Railway: The Movie has appeared online on YouTube.

Uploaded by Shining23, the latest scenes from the new special can be seen on the US Go Go Thomas! DVD which was released earlier this week.

Highlights include Percy, Thomas and James' triple header, Gordon and Spencer meeting Connor and Caitlin, Stephen almost derailing at the Blue Mountain Quarry, the rest of the Steam Teamand Hiro cameoing.

However, viewing criticism on Arc Productions' animation has yet to be changed with the majority branding the CGI unfinished.

King of the Railway: The Movie premieres in the UK, US, Germany and Australia from this September.

Tuesday, 5 March 2013

King of the Railway will receive its own storybook tie-in when released in the UK this September.

The Movie Storybook is to present readers with a complete view of the special in readable form. amazon.co.uk's summary of the book reveals more on the plot.

The Earl of Sodor has come to visit the island, and he wants to reopen Ulfstead Castle. All the engines have a job to do, but poor old Stephen doesn't think he'll be able to help.Can Thomas help Stephen find a way to be useful? Fans of Thomas and friends can relive all the action from the hit movie in this action-packed storybook!

Blue MountainMystery and Day of the Diesels also had their own storybooks made.

King of the Railway: The Movie Storybook hits UK book shelves on September 2nd 2013.

Australia's Go Go Thomas! DVD has been revealed to include changes to its original episode order.

Despite EZYDVD's description, six episodes are instead on the release with Ol' Wheezy Wobbles being removed and replaced with two other stories from a previous series.

Thomas Stansfield alias NWR1991 was the first to notice the change; I recently bought Go Go Thomas from JB HI-FI, they always release Thomas DVDs before the actual release date.I noticed that there are two Season Fifteen episodes.They're, Kevin The Steamie and Wonky Whistle. They've replaced Ol' Wheezy Wobbles though.